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You mean the amount of Mio merchandise running around still isn't enough for you?

A simple shelf's worth will not suffice; An entire room's worth is in demand...

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A simple shelf's worth will not suffice; An entire room's worth is in demand...

But a real living one is still the best.

Nah, I would rather have her as my maid.

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Eh?! She's only 5'2''! I thought she'd be taller :x Yui and Ritsu must be really short, rofl.

Your imperial to metric conversions are insufficiently precise. She is in fact 5'3, same as Kotomi and Kyou from Clannad.

And as Vexx points out, that's not short by Japanese standards... there's plenty of 4'11 characters out there, like Rena from Higurashi and Kei and Chihiro Shindou from EF.

I should point that out the next time someone teases the cute Chihiro cosplayer I like about her height... she's three inches taller than the character she cosplays, so there's not reason to worry about it. I'm sure she'll be happy to hear that.

The Japanese people I meet must be really tall then....most of them are my height (~174cm)...

Are the Japanese you know male or female? Remember, characters like Mio aren't just short because they're Japanese, but also because they're girls - females in Canada, the US, the UK, and Japan all average about 5 and a half inches less than males.

So if your friends are guys, they aren't actually that tall... the average height for a 19 year old Japanese male in 2006 was 171.5 cm. For comparison, the average 19 year old Japanese female in 2006 was 158cm.

Certain regional differences also apply... my wife's mother's side were all very tall (approaching 180cm) but we're pretty sure they are related to a strain used for the Imperial Guard way back when. My wife's father's side were all quite short (even the men rarely broke 160cm). My wife and all her female cousins on her dad's side (there were 9 aunts and uncles) are mostly around 150cm.

Japanese raised in America or Canada will *tend* to be a bit taller due to diet differences... and Japanese in Japan have been quietly getting a bit taller each generation.